Guidance Search
The Department of Labor provides this guidance search tool as a single, searchable location where users may search for guidance issued by any of the Department’s agencies, including significant guidance documents under Executive Order 12866. Individual guidance documents are maintained on the various agency websites, and if you know what agency you are looking for, you may also find guidance by navigating directly to that agency’s website. The Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, which are not maintained by the Department, also include some of the Department’s interpretations of law and similar material.
The Department and its agencies issue guidance to provide clarifying information and technical assistance to the public on existing statutory and regulatory rights and obligations, inform the regulated community about best practices, and provide other useful information. The contents of these documents do not have the force and effect of law and are not meant to bind the public in any way, except as authorized by law or incorporated into a contract, cooperative agreement, or grant.
Members of the public may petition the Department to modify or withdraw specific guidance documents. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.
Petitions to Modify or Withdraw a DOL guidance document may also be submitted by mail at the address below. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for requesting withdrawal or modification.
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Numerous questions related to OSHA's notice to terminate the rulemaking to amend the explosives standard. - [1910.119; 1910.109]
Numerous questions related to training requirements under 1910.269. - [1910.269]
Clarification on the use of safety monitors as a method of fall protection on a low-slope roof
Clarification on the use of safety monitors as a method of fall protection on a low-slope roof. - [1926.501; 1926.501(b)(10); 1926.502; 1926.502(h); 1926.453; 1926.453(b)(2)(v)]
Sets forth MSHA's enforcement policy, and provides guidance to the mining community on the monthly examination and testing requirements of electrical equipment under 30 C.F.R. §§ 77.502 and 77.502-2 involving emergency stop devices or pull cord switches and their respective activating or mechanical arms for conveyor belts.
This memorandum establishes new streamlined procedures for documenting the outcome of certain whistleblower complaints filed under any of the 21 statutes will require only an entry into the IMIS database in lieu of a Report of Investigation.
CPL 02-00-153 - National - Communicating OSHA Fatality Inspection Procedures to a Victims Family - 04/17/2012 - PDF
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) revised its requirements for preshift, supplemental, on-shift, and weekly examinations of underground coal mines to require operators to identify violations of health or safety standards related to ventilat
Mandatory elements of a HAZWOPER baseline physical examination. - [1910.120; 1910.120(q)(9)(i); 1910.120(f)(3)(ii); 1910.120(f)(4)(i)]
Informs interested parties of a potential hazard that can be eliminated by providing a neutral start method on mobile electrical equipment. This PIB supersedes P09-07.
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